Thank you. My brother has a Chevy Colorado Trail Boss and we have fun in the age old debate on Ford vs. Chevy. It is very civil. We both admire the things that are different about each other's trucks. He sometimes ribs me with, "Well at least my truck does not have a particulate filter". Now I hope I can squash that one. Now I just have to do something about my "fuzzy cardboard" skid plates lol
What would he say if you owned a SLATE?
HAHA I'm thinking more like these skid plates and sliders but I like how you're thinking
I actually wanted a hybrid Maverick but they had no hybrid Lariats or anything else with CoPilot 360 available locally. My daughter's car had something like that advanced cruise control and I really really wanted it. I had no time to wait to order due to my old vehicle taking a crap and they had this Tremor already sitting on the lot. He helped convince me that I would like the Tremor better then hybrid by pointing all the cool things about it. Then, as soon as I bought it, he started in with the particulate filter and the fuzzy carboard skid plates protecting the fuel tank. I love my brother lol.
I ordered the rival one because the weight of the other is nuts.
LoL, at least he hasn't said that your bed is stuck to the cab, unlike a real truck with the bed on ther frame.
IMO the Tremor is much cooler than a Hybrid. I would have liked a Tremor but the MSRP on my 2025 2.0 EB XLT AWD Maverick was only $31,510.00 and i got $1,482.00 off of MSRP with Employee Pricing.
$350 to finish or correctly finish building your truck, bummer.
The GPF will go directly behind the cat or behind the secondary cat, depending on how the final configuration is set up. The telltale sign is that it will have a pressure sensor at the front, to know when the GPF regeneration cycle needs to start, and a temperature sensor at the back to know if the temp is high enough for regeneration to happen.
New particulate emission regulations go into effect for 2027. Currently we are at something like 4 mg/mile of PM2.5, the fine particulates that cause asthma, COPD, lung cancer and heart disease. The 2027 rule restricts cars and light trucks to 0.5 mg/mile, which means they are all going to end up with GPF’s.
The rival kit includes engine skid (26lbs) + evap skid (14 lbs), but does not include the floorboard skids.
I just can't decide if I should get both or just one or the other. I'm talking about the rock sliders or the giant skid plates that protect the floorboards. If you watch that installation video, they will show you that it already comes from Ford with a second metal skid plate, hiding behind the fuzzy cardboard, for the evap but it covers just the evap. I think the big skid plates would offer better protection for the fuel tank and fuel/brake lines. The rock sliders are an option because if you're doing it right, the only thing that ever bottoms up will be the rock sliders anyway.
